Pan American Games

The Pan-American or Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) constitute a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held between athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years in the year before the Summer Olympic Games. There has been one edition of the Winter Pan American Games in 1990.

Played since 1951, they added Rugby Sevens in 2011, won by Canada, beating Argentina 26-24 in the Final. The Pan American Games were last held in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2011. The next edition will be held in Toronto in 2015 and afterwards, Lima, Peru in 2019